Introduction - Horacio Perez

Hello New York! This is your station WHUL 100. I am Horacio and this is your program the XPlane. (RHCP’s song airplane on for 10 seconds.) Today we are going to talk about Pop Culture, and we have experts in the different branches on the subject. Please let me welcome Ana, Ileana, Pedro and Daniel.

Now as we all my know Pop Culture is the popular culture that makes us think, dress, look feel or be in a certain way. It has become an actual social environment that has different influences according to the different decades. Here are the experts: Ana is a fashion designer; Ileana a make-up designer; Pedro a musician; Daniel a teen psychologist and of course, I’m going to talk about T.V as a former actor. Daniel, Pedro, Ana, and Ileana talk about their subject

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Teenagers - Daniel (An Je) Min

Many people don't believe that teenagers create pop culture. They are most often the type of people who will quickly and easily buy into fads. However, if they didn't approve of these fads they would quickly and most certainly die out. When an artist comes out with a new CD often, since teenagers are most likely to be the ones that are listening to it on the radio, they are the first ones to end up buying it. Teenagers only hear the one song because that's all the radio plays.

Now a day most of teenagers follow what is popular because they are generally ones who discover new trends, clothing, music and different hair style. For example, a teen boy wears a pair of jeans with a North Face jacket and listens to hip hop music, while changing his hair style like Beckam, the soccer player in England. Not only the appearance aspect do they discover, also the way of speaking, sport, and dancing.

There are many influences in pop culture for teenagers. These influences include music, movies, fashion, and celebrities. Many of these influences have a positive affect on teenagers that watch, listen, or wear the products. A positive influence could be as simple as making somebody feels good about themselves. Positive musicians, movies, and celebrities give teenagers someone respectable to look up to. However, not all influences in pop culture are positive for them. There are many influences that are negative. Negative influences include violence, inappropriate lyrics, and celebrities that set a bad example on them. Many times from these negative influences teenagers become more aggressive committing crime and having drugs.

These are generally what pop culture affects to teenagers.

Now the next person, Ana, is going to talk about Fashion.

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Fashion - Ana Velez

Fashion is the popular style of clothes, hair and also make-up that changes over the years. Clothing has become fun, a fact quickly discovered by many others. There are many fun things about 60’s, 70’s and today’s fashion. Fashion from the 60’s, 70’s and today is very fun and is always changing.

The biggest fashion change after the fifties came in the rise of hemlines(the length of a dress and skirt). During 1963 hemlines were just above the knee, but the rise gained momentum and popularity. By the end of 1965, skirts six inches above the knee were not uncommon. The changing fashion did not go unnoticed. Designers played with hemlines and women were excited to wear shorter and shorter skirts and dresses. By 1967 the fashion changed again. The mini skirt soon became the mini dress, which combined the ‘A’ line design. The ‘A’ line comes straight onto the hips and ignores the fact that girls have a waist at all. Another popular style in the 60’s was the trouser suits for women, which became more popular and socially acceptable in the mid sixties. Shoes and ankle boots became very popular also.

There are many clothing styles that were popular during the seventies such as: Angel Flight Suits, Army Jackets, Blue Jean Purses and Capris.

Today’s fashion, shoes and styles are similar to the 60’s and 70’s fashion. Now fashion has fewer rules, more creativity and endless possibilities. Fashion today expresses the individual’s sense of styles. Clothes, shoes, and styles can be conservative or sexy, dark or bright, classic or funky.

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Make-up - Ileana Reyes

There is a major difference between evening make up and day make-up. Most people are finishing with the evening look. This is not right. the major reason for this difference is lighting. There are some women that don’t know how to put on make-up. They wear some tones that don’t go with their skin color. They wear a lot of color on their eyes and they don’t look as good. If you are going out dancing in a night club, this is a place where there is very little light so you will need to over dramatize your make up for it to be seen by others. People that perform in the theaters are another good example of what this means. They must do their make-up almost like a clown so you can see it with the stage lighting that shines on them. As you can see, people used to wear make-up. In the 1950’s and 1960’s, people wore simple and natural make-up. They never wore all this make-up. They were so beautiful and natural that they didn’t need make-up. TV people need all that because they are the most recognizable. Now you can understand why you need make-up changes throughout the day. If there were only one type of light, there would be need for ‘Day Make-Up’ and ‘Evening Make-Up.

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Music - Pedro Rodriques

Well, you know Ileana friends and radio listener, you can say that music pop culture originated in the 1960's, since that is the timeline when most of the people were getting into modern culture. Back then Rock and Roll was, you know, the music emerging in the pop scene. Artist like Jimmy Hendrix, Elvis Presley, Little Richard were some of the co-founders of the American Music Pop Culture.

Pop Culture has been like a tree that has emerged into lots of different roots. Pop Culture has emerge into the likes of Alternative, Country and Western, House, Industrial, Latin, Musicals, Rap and Hip Hop, Reggae, Soul and RnB and Tejano. Some of the bands that have perfected this genre of music have been the likes of Counting Crows, Dave Mathews Band, David Bowie, Ani DiFranco, The Donnas, Bob Dylan, Goo Goo Dolls, Tish Hinojosa, Sarah Mclachlan, Matchbox 20, Oasis, Pearl Jam, Public Enemy, Radiohead, Rage against the Machine, Red hot Chili Peppers and the rolling stone.

To conclude, the scene of the musical pop culture has been a culture that has carried all over Europe and across the world. It started from the likes of Rock and Roll and has emerged into the likes of Rap and Rock music and it has been on top of the musical charts for over 3 decades. So with no further or do, I'll like to bring back the host Horacio who is going to get into how Pop Culture influenced T.V Horacio.

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Tv and the conclusion - Horacio Perez

TV is a very important issue when it comes to Pop Culture; in fact, I can dare to say that consequently TV created Pop Culture by bringing the different feelings into ourselves. For instance, what makes us want a new dress or new shoes is mostly because TV commercials, but it doesn’t stop there. Through this media we can let our imagination rest and see in images what might be good in books. For example, we can name Lord of the Rings, which was a great hit. TV has changed a lot since its beginnings, but we can say that it all started back in the 50’s when the great Elvis appeared on the air for the first time, and so on through the decades TV plays an important role in the development and changes of Pop Culture. It has both good and bad influences especially on teenagers.

Pop Culture is a social impact that has different effects on people, but we certainly can’t let it pass by without recognizing its importance on today’s society. Thanks to the four experts. I am your host, Horacio and this was The X-Plane. Stay tuned for the next presentation!

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My name is JE MIN, but my friends usually call me Daniel. I was born in Korea in 1981. My parents decided to move to Argentina when I was 10 years old. I spent my all childhood in that country, so i would not say that Argentina is a foreign country for me. When I was 20 years old my family decided to come to United States because there are more opportunities than other countries. I am now attending at LAGCC majoring Programming and Systems. I will transfer to a four years college as soon as graduate. My dream is to be a famous programmer and work in a well know company. I know it is hard for a student like me. First, it is because i am not fluent in English. Secondly, it is because there are so many intelligent people in U.S. So, that's way i am trying to work hard to overcome my problems and be confident of myself to do everything good.

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Hello my name is Pedro Rodriguez, I came from the Domincan Republic at the age of seven. When we arrived in America, we shared the apartment with my aunt and uncle, a month later me and my family moved to the current apartment. We have been living in our apartment for over 10 years, the apartment is kind off tight, but we as a family have stayed together even through the rough times. Some of my hobbies are reading writing poetry and raps. I really enjoy literature a lot, regardless of which form it comes. Literature is a great way for the individual to take their mind to places that your body won't probably ever reach. And I remember one of my favorite quotes, from this rapper Cormega. He said, "I am like a panther in the dark, silent when I strike the paper, like a dagger in your heart, when I write I leave a mark." The human imagination is a powerful tool. It is sad that a lot of people throw it away by using drugs or by drinking alcoholic beverages, which result in killing their brain cells. I like to be a real down to earth individual, I don't believe in having an ego; I'd like to leave with this quote from one of my favorite rappers, Cormega said, "prestige is an illusion, people tend to lose sight"

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